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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research
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Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry as discussed by the authors and a handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.Abstract:
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry. This handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.
Extended worked examples from the authors' own studies in health, sexuality, psychological distress and identity illustrate the breadth and depth of IPA research.
Each of the chapters also offers a guide to other good exemplars of IPA research in the designated area. The final section of the book considers how IPA connects with other contemporary qualitative approaches like discourse and narrative analysis and how it addresses issues to do with validity. The book is written in an accessible style and will be extremely useful to students and researchers in psychology and related disciplines in the health and social sciences.read more
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Elite identity and status anxiety: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of management consultants
TL;DR: This article explored the experiences of eight management consultants in the British office of a global consulting firm over several months and found that the continual promotion of an elite identity within the consulting firm leaves many of the consultants feeling acutely anxious about their status.
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Discourse Revisited: Dimensions and Employment of First-Order Strategy Discourse During Institutional Adoption
TL;DR: A deeper understanding is contributed to of the concept of strategy in practice, the process of institutional adoption, and of the role of discourse in this process.
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‘People have a knack of making you feel excluded if they catch on to your difference’: Transgender experiences of exclusion in sport:
TL;DR: This paper explored and analyzed the narratives of transgender people in relation to their experiences of sport and physical activity. But, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of trans people in sport.
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Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology
TL;DR: In the scientific community, and particularly in psychology and health, there has been an active and ongoing debate on the relative merits of adopting either quantitative or qualitative methods, especially when researching into human behaviour as mentioned in this paper.
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Lifelines: Desistance, Social Relations, and Reciprocity
Beth Weaver,Fergus McNeill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the life stories of a friendship group of men in their 40s who offended together in their youth and early adulthood are explored, revealing individual, relational, and structural contributions to the desistance process.
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Using thematic analysis in psychology
Virginia Braun,Victoria Clarke +1 more
TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.
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Constructing grounded theory : a practical guide through qualitative analysis
TL;DR: K Kathy Charmaz's excellent and practical guide to grounded theory in nursing and how to do qualitative research in nursing is welcomed.
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Constructing grounded theory : A practical guide through qualitative analysis
TL;DR: Charmaz as mentioned in this paper presented a practical guide through qualitative analysis to construct grounded theory, using qualitative analysis, and showed that qualitative analysis can be used to understand grounded theory in a practical way.
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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Jonathan A. Smith,Mike Osborn +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is to explore in detail how participants are making sense of their personal and social world, and the main currency for an IPA study is the meanings particular experiences, events, states hold for participants as discussed by the authors.
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Dilemmas in qualitative health research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the problem posed by the novelty and diversity of qualitative approaches within health psychology and consider the question of what criteria are appropriate for assessing the validity of a qualitative analysis.